*2.1.2 Gardens in the school space*

In the educational context, adopting other forms of production and consumption that is more sustainable is fundamental to resignify time, space and social relations of the students.

It is noteworthy that for school garden its size is not important, but the diversity of plants used matters. The main idea is to manage, in a balanced way, the soil and other natural resources through a work harmonized with nature and, as the garden will be located in the premises of a school, the construction and management can be used as an activity of enrichment of classroom learning [12].

The study proposes the elaboration for the construction of school gardens that meet children and adolescents for the experience of agricultural and environmental practices for plant and animal production. Vegetable gardens, vertical gardens in pet bottles and gardens in ceilings with the use of pallets are preferred in which vegetables and fruits adapted to the region, are to be cultivated. Proper management options are required, besides use of constructive materials of low cost. Community and rural producers in the region may supply the seedlings and may be involved in the production system.

There are enormous benefits of composting in the school community, and most important among them is the possibility of students to start administering and using the leftover food produced in their family environment. In addition are the inevitable learning process related to ethics, personal responsibility and environmental citizenship, giving them a specific action to help their local community and society as a whole. The landscape effect that the materials recyclable and plants can provide, has been shown in **Figure 1**.

With the short space, it was proposed to build units of vertical vegetable gardens using pet bottles that can be collected by students at their homes, vegetable gardens

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**Figure 3.**

*Installation of Vegetable Based Roof Gardens in Schools From Recyclable Materials: A Study*

with tires and a central site that is already existing in space. For the cultivation of species that do not have good productive results receiving solar incidence, a recycle wood pergola of solid waste from civil construction—RSC, was designed where

Vegetable gardens serve as pedagogical space for teaching learning, almost all

Thus, the garden inserted in the school environment can be a living laboratory that enables the development of several pedagogical activities in environmental and food education, uniting theory and practice in a contextualized way, assisting in the teaching process, learning and promoting collective and cooperative work among

It is worth noticing that this space will serve to perform different trainings that may be offered to the community, enabling knowledge about the breeding of birds, including the sanitary management, the preparation of the ration in the property, records and notes, the use of poultry manure for crop fertilization, production of

In the field study, one of the schools had the space in a covered area with roof in slab, and thus pallets were used for the construction of beds, in order to protect the floor of the covering and use a material that would possibly have its destination in

Another proposal was on lajeed roofs, and again use of pallets was suggested (**Figure 4**). The pallets may be purchased in trade as recycled material, and used as the basis for transporting construction products, machinery, and other high-weight

In addition to providing a better nutrition to school students, it also ensured

a greater awareness about the natural assets and valorous vision about the

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the social agents involved [5].

the dumps.

products.

**Figure 2.**

*Planting with technical guidance.*

*Vegetable bed with the use of tires.*

vines will be cultivated, for example, passion fruit.

vegetables and legumes and climatic studies, etc.

care is performed by the students, as seen in **Figures 2** and **3**.

**Figure 1.** *Proposal of an agropedagogical space of recyclable materials.*
